This paper investigates a women's self-help group program with more than 1.5 million participants in one of the poorest …

Over the past two decades developing countries have seen a rapid increase in the number of women taking an active role … evidence focuses attention on the importance of developing pro-FPLP policies specifically targeting women belonging to lower …

persistence, and women's occupational constraints-- with particular emphasis on the role of access to infrastructure. The first … several gender-based or gender-related experiments -- a reduction in the cost of child rearing, improved wage equality in the … promoting the role of women in growth strategies …

measure of unequal laws also known as legal gender disparities, and relates it to several labor market outcomes for women … evidence indicates that access to finance and corruption are pathways by which legal gender disparities disempower women in the … discriminate against women influence their engagement in the economy. The study adopts a holistic approach, exploring an overall …

a world with high inequalities than in a more equal world. In the long run, impacts could be much stronger, with global … average calorie losses of 6 percent by 2050 and 14 percent by 2080. A mitigation policy to stabilize climate below 2?C …

The developing world is experiencing substantial environmental change, and climate change is likely to accelerate these …

respond to declining income with coping strategies that can vary significantly by gender. In the past, women from low …Do women weather economic shocks differently than men? The evidence shows this to be the case, especially in low …-income countries. The first-round impacts of economic crises on women's employment should be particularly salient in the current …

The study aims to provide insights to policy makers in measuring the impact of trade liberalization and regional … integration measures on gender employment and wages. The study incorporates gender-differentiated employment and wages for … green trade sectors. This is the first major attempt to develop a gender-differentiated data set for South Asian countries …

Improving women's agency, namely their ability to define goals and act on them, is crucial for advancing gender … equality and the empowerment of women. Yet, existing frameworks for women's agency measurement -- both disorganized and partial … -- provide a fragmented understanding of the constraints women face in exercising their agency, restricting the design of quality …

promotion of gender equality. It employs the family as the main unit of analysis because a large part of gender interactions … and identifies several factors that have altered the bargaining position of men and women over the last decades. It then … reviews empirical work on the contribution of men, as fathers and husbands, to the health and socioeconomic outcomes of women …